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Zach Forehand
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“…the crisis of liberal education is a reflection of a crisis at the peaks of learning, an incoherence and incompatibility among the first principles with which we interpret the world, an intellectual crisis of the greatest magnitude, which constitutes the crisis of our civilization… Liberal education flourished when it prepared the way for the discussion of a unified view of nature and man’s place in it.”
— Jun 30, 2025 12:55PM
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Zach Forehand
is on page 157 of 392
“Once Americans had become convinced that there is indeed a basement to which psychiatrists have the key, their orientation became that of the ‘self’, the mysterious, free, unlimited center of our being. All our beliefs issue from it and have no other validation.”
— Jan 18, 2025 06:14PM
Zach Forehand
is on page 82 of 392
“The psychological obtuseness of our students is appalling, because they have only pop [culture] psychology to tell them what people are like, and the range of their motives. As the awareness that we owed almost exclusively to literary genius falters, people become more alike, for want of knowing they can be otherwise.”
— Oct 19, 2024 03:25PM
